LINGUIST List 5.1059

Fri 30 Sep 1994

FYI: Recherches linguistiques de Vincennes, Optimality archive

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1. Bert Peeters, 5.1051 TOC: Recherches linguistiques de Vincennes
2. Alan Prince, Optimality Archive

>Revue Linguistique de Vincennes Vol. 22 (180 pp) has just appeared.
> "Syntaxe des languages africaines"

For those of us who are not in the US and would therefore order this in from
France, and even for those of us who would write to Christiane Fellbaum, it
must be pointed out that we are talking about the

 RECHERCHES LINGUISTIQUES de Vincennes
 VOL. 23 (not 22)
 "Syntaxe des LANGUES africaines"

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-Alan Prince
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